The Masnavi, Book One · Bk. 1 (Oxford World's Classics) by Rumi, Jalal al-Din -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Copyright Page Title Page Contents Dedication Introduction Note on the Translation Select Bibliography A Chronology of Rumi The Masnavi: Book One

Prose Introduction The Song of the Reed The Healing of the Sick Slave-Girl The Bald Parrot and the Monk The Jewish Vizier who Deceived the Christians into Following him and Destroyed them The Description of Mohammad in the Gospels The Jewish King who Tried to Destroy Christians with his fire

How a Hare Killed the Lion that had been Tormenting all the other Animals

The Man who saw the Angel of Death The Interpretation of the Fly in a Drop of Donkey’s Urine Solomon and the Hoopoe

Adam’s Fall

The Greater Jihad

Omar and the Emissary from Byzantium

Adam’s Superiority to Satan ‘He is with You Wherever You may be’ ‘Let Whoever Wants to Sit with God Sit with the Sufis’

The Escape of the Merchant’s Parrot

‘If Mystics Drink Poison it will Become an Antidote’ Moses and the Magicians God’s Jealousy The Harm in Being Venerated by People ‘What God Wills Happens’

The Old Harpist

‘The Special Breaths Sent by God’ Aisha and the Unseen Rain

‘Other Skies beyond These’ ‘Take Advantage of the Coolness of the Spring’

The Moaning Pillar The Gravel that Affirmed Mohammad’s Prophethood

The Prayer of the Angels in Favour of Big Spenders The Caliph Who Was More Generous than Hatem Ta’i The Poor Bedouin and his Wife

False Sufi Masters Viewing from Limited Perspectives ‘Women Prevail over Intelligent Men, while Ignorant Men Prevail over them’ Pharaoh’s Fate ‘He Has Lost this World and the Hereafter’ Saleh and his She-Camel ‘He lets the Seas meet Each Other with a Gap which They Don’t Encroach upon’ The Station of ‘That God may forgive you your past and future sins’ The Mutual Need of Beggars and Donors False Dervishes Lovers of the Superficial ‘If You Fornicate, Do it with a Free Woman; If You Steal, Steal a Pearl!’ The Boatman and the Grammarian

The Sufi Guide The Softie from Qazvin who Wanted a Tattoo The Lion, the Wolf, and the Fox

Sufis Serve as Mirrors of the Soul The Gift Brought by Joseph’s Visitor The Prophet’s Scribe who Became an Apostate

Bal am and the Damned The Temptation of Harut and Marut

The Deaf Man who Visited his Sick Neighbour Satan was the First to Rely on Reasoning

The Importance of Hiding your Mystical Station The Painting Competition between the Greeks and the Chinese The Prophet Mohammad and Zayd

Extinguishing Fire in Medina under Omar Why Ali Dropped his Sword in Battle

The Man who was Told that he would One Day Kill Ali

Adam’s Conceit

Explanatory Notes Glossary of Proper Names